From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?
Date: 26 Feb 2001 23:34:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97flai$h60$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F281raFC8XymNMDdckH00012e6f@hotmail.com>
Followup to: <F281raFC8XymNMDdckH00012e6f@hotmail.com>
By author: "Mack Stevenson" <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
>
> The 8x16 and Sun 12x22 kernel fonts I tried seem to lack some standard
> glyphs necessary to represent the entire ISO-8859-1 charmap; I am talking
> about all accented capital vowels except for 'É'.
>
> This seems to happen in both 2.2.16 as well as in 2.2.18.
>
> Is this intentional? If so, why?
>
> How can I override this behaviour?
>
They're probably CP 437 fonts. Just load your own; e.g. "setfont lat1u-16".
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-27 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-27 6:37 ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts? Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 7:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-02-27 16:26 ` Thorsten Glaser Geuer
2001-02-27 19:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-27 20:05 ` Thorsten Glaser Geuer
2001-02-27 21:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-28 7:29 ` idalton
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2001-02-27 13:41 Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-27 19:58 ` Guest section DW
2001-02-27 23:16 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-02-27 21:45 Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 23:34 Andries.Brouwer
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